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in thread Write code using less lines

In addition, you could do:

my $len_seq = $str =~ tr/A-Za-z//;

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Re^3: Write code using less lines
by jwkrahn (Abbot) on Apr 19, 2010 at 18:40 UTC

    Or possibly:

    my $len_seq = $str =~ tr/-//c;